Y’know, I think it was a question of expediency. Like: how do I end this thing? If that was all the story she meant to tell with these characters, the problem is, with the set up, you really only had the option of [HG/RW and HP/GW] *or* [HG/HP which left Ron and Ginny dangling]
And with where things were left in the story, Harry and Hermione both had no families left to speak of, so there was something nice about them marrying into a large and well established wizarding family. Add water and stir and you have an instant family. Anyway, I understand why she didn’t go there. In as much as I like the idea of (heterosexual) men and women being shown as capable of friendships that lead to nothing more, I didn’t mind too much that she didn’t go that route. And they’d made too much of a deal out of a sibling relationship between Harry and Hermione anyway. I wouldn’t have liked a rollback.
Which is a problem for me, as I’m lukewarm on Hinny, and Romione makes me stabby. And hate Ron. Which is sad, because up until that moment in the Epilogue, I liked him just fine. He was flawed, but who isn’t? That’s no reason to hate him. Right up until he ‘wins’ in the face of his flaws...
But any other pairings would have required some narrative to make sense of.
Question - so in DH, at the end, Neville decides he’s going to ask Luna out. And then you find out, seventeen years later, she ends up with some guy you’ve never met. How did you feel about that. (Not what did you *think*, but how did it make you *feel*?)
I *thought* it made perfect sense that she finds someone who shares more of her interests and is better suited. That at least one of them grows up to marry someone they *didn’t* go to school with. And Luna is the only one of those six from the DoM that wasn’t in the first few books, so from a narrative standpoint, it made sense to me that she was chosen for it. And yet my *feeling* was along the lines of I’d been cheated out of a story. And if I responded that way to a comparatively minor character (of those six), then how was I likely to respond if JKR had done that with Harry or Hermione? Now Ron thy could have paired with Lavender (she was mangled, but never officially killed in the books), and I wouldn’t have needed anyone to explain it. But Harry and Hermione with anyone but each other or Ginny & Ron? No, I’d need the story.
If the neighbour’s cat was anything to go by, the creatures (or some of them) kill a shitload more animals than they ever intend to eat. (It was a really cute animal, but a environmental catastrophe on four velveteen paws... A dozen or so *extra* critters any given week, above and beyond what he ate. Oof. *Decimated* the local bird population.)
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And with where things were left in the story, Harry and Hermione both had no families left to speak of, so there was something nice about them marrying into a large and well established wizarding family. Add water and stir and you have an instant family. Anyway, I understand why she didn’t go there. In as much as I like the idea of (heterosexual) men and women being shown as capable of friendships that lead to nothing more, I didn’t mind too much that she didn’t go that route. And they’d made too much of a deal out of a sibling relationship between Harry and Hermione anyway. I wouldn’t have liked a rollback.
Which is a problem for me, as I’m lukewarm on Hinny, and Romione makes me stabby. And hate Ron. Which is sad, because up until that moment in the Epilogue, I liked him just fine. He was flawed, but who isn’t? That’s no reason to hate him. Right up until he ‘wins’ in the face of his flaws...
But any other pairings would have required some narrative to make sense of.
Question - so in DH, at the end, Neville decides he’s going to ask Luna out. And then you find out, seventeen years later, she ends up with some guy you’ve never met. How did you feel about that. (Not what did you *think*, but how did it make you *feel*?)
I *thought* it made perfect sense that she finds someone who shares more of her interests and is better suited. That at least one of them grows up to marry someone they *didn’t* go to school with. And Luna is the only one of those six from the DoM that wasn’t in the first few books, so from a narrative standpoint, it made sense to me that she was chosen for it. And yet my *feeling* was along the lines of I’d been cheated out of a story. And if I responded that way to a comparatively minor character (of those six), then how was I likely to respond if JKR had done that with Harry or Hermione? Now Ron thy could have paired with Lavender (she was mangled, but never officially killed in the books), and I wouldn’t have needed anyone to explain it. But Harry and Hermione with anyone but each other or Ginny & Ron? No, I’d need the story.
If the neighbour’s cat was anything to go by, the creatures (or some of them) kill a shitload more animals than they ever intend to eat. (It was a really cute animal, but a environmental catastrophe on four velveteen paws... A dozen or so *extra* critters any given week, above and beyond what he ate. Oof. *Decimated* the local bird population.)